Socrates and Legal Obligation

<div> <p><i>Socrates and Legal Obligation</i> was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p> <p>Charged with impiety and sentenced to death under the law of Athens Socrates did not try to disprove the charges or to escape death but rather held to a different kind of rhetoric aiming not at persuasion but at truth. In <i>Socrates and Legal Obligation</i> R.E. Allen contends that Plato's works on Socrates' acceptance of death-the <i>Apology</i> and the <i>Crito</i> - should be considered together and as such constitute a profound treatment of law and of obligation to law. Allen's study of Socrates' thought on these vital issues is accompanied by his own translations of the <i>Apology</i> and the <i>Crito</i>.</p> </div>